Vincent Brown visits the IHS

Wed, October 28, 2009

Dr. Vincent Brown, Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University, will be visiting The University of Texas at Austin on Nov. 2-3. Dr. Brown teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery. We are very pleased to welcome this accomplished scholar as he discusses three different projects: a workshop paper, a film, and his recent book.

On Monday, Nov. 2, Dr. Brown will workshop his paper, "Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery," at a lunch sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies. This lunch will be held on the fourth floor of Garrison Hall from 12:00 to 1:30. Responding will be Dr. James Sidbury, Professor of History at UT Austin and author of Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810 (Cambridge 2008) and Becoming African in America Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Oxford 2007). Dr. Sidbury teaches social and cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and early African American history. To reserve your lunch and receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please email Courtney at meadorcl@mail.utexas.edu by 9 a.m., this Friday, October 30.

That same evening, at 6:30 PM, Dr. Brown will be leading a screening of "Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness," a recent film that he co-produced. The screening will be held at Garrison 0.102, and is free to the public. Dr. Brown will lead a discussion following the film. For more information on this movie, see: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0224&s=hersk

Last, but certainly not least, Dr. Brown will be discussing his recent book,The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, on Tuesday, November 3, at 12:30. The discussion will take place in GAR 4.100. Please RSVP to Courtney at meadorcl@mail.utexas.edu by 9 a.m., this Friday, October 30, if you wish to attend.

We are very excited to host a scholar who will be discussing history in several different forums and through several different media. We hope that you will join us for these events.